I remember how bored we were as kids, making mud cakes, observing how adults behaved and treated kids, reading all the billboards, eavesdropping on conversations too mature for me, free channels like PBS, playing cops & robbers, knocking on all the kids doors to come out and play, finding our way back home somehow, using the pay phone to dial toll free numbers and pretending we were adults actually interested in buying, watching whatever was on TV and waiting for that hit song to come on the radio to record it on a pink boombox cassette player.